Films and TV Shows from the 1910s

poster Max Skiing
Max Skiing
4mn - Comedy, Fantasy
In a snowy Alpine district Max takes his first lessons in the art of skiing. He leaves the hotel with his skis fixed to his shoes, and his efforts and contortions to get through the door of his room are a…
poster Bud's Recruit
Bud's Recruit
26mn - Comedy, Drama
This WWI home-front comedy is the earliest surviving film of King Vidor, who would later go on to make such classics as The Big Parade and The Crowd. A two-reeler, it's a propaganda comedy involving a lit…
poster Death's Marathon
Death's Marathon
15mn - Drama
Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her gradually wane…
poster Fatty’s Faithful Fido
Fatty’s Faithful Fido
13mn - Comedy
Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.
poster Fatty's New Role
Fatty's New Role
13mn - Comedy
Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.
poster Fatty’s Plucky Pup
Fatty’s Plucky Pup
27mn - Comedy
Four bad men have kidnapped Fatty's girlfriend and plan to kill her. Fatty's dog knows where she is, but Fatty doesn't and he was crying. However the dog came back to get Fatty, and they and the Keystone …
poster Fatty’s Reckless Fling
Fatty’s Reckless Fling
13mn - Comedy
Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He is given shelter by a neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy, leading …
poster Jubilo
Jubilo
55mn - Comedy, Western, Drama
Jubilo, a hobo, witnesses a robbery, finds work on Judge Hardy’s farm, and foils the vengeful machinations of a sinister villain.
poster The Miracle Water
The Miracle Water
10mn - Romance, Comedy
In this sophisticated romantic comedy, healing waters are the cover for an extramarital affair that “cures” the infertility problems of a childless couple.
poster The Autumn of the Heart
The Autumn of the Heart
12mn - Drama
Léonce Perret's film about a musician's loves and heartaches: An aging violinist is secretly in love with his young student. Will music be enough of a comfort to him as she gets married?
poster Gretchen the Greenhorn
Gretchen the Greenhorn
58mn -
Gretchen Van Houck is just arriving in the USA, on a ship from Holland. She joins her father, who has already spent several years in America, where he owns an engraving business. In the tenement community…
poster Policy and Pie
Policy and Pie
7mn - Animation
After the Captain finds the black cat under his hat on the floor after the hat moved, he hits the cat with a brush at the exact time Mama's flour in her pie hits her and makes her white!
poster L'Express matrimonial
L'Express matrimonial
13mn -
Romance on the train with a bitter old governess stands in the way.
poster Hands Up
Hands Up
300mn - Adventure
A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.
poster Max as a Chiropodist
Max as a Chiropodist
15mn - Comedy
Coming to visit a girl, Max presents himself as a pedicurist.
poster The Secret of the American Docks
The Secret of the American Docks
69mn - Mystery
James Mistoll, one of the owners of a factory, and working on a process to turn copper ore into radium, falls from a window on the fourth floor and dies; This was no accident, but a murder. A detective se…
poster The Lady Doctor
The Lady Doctor
7mn - Comedy
Charles Prince is married to Mistinguett, but she's too busy being a doctor to tend to her wifely duties, so he seeks entertainment elsewhere in this short from Pathe Freres.
poster Les timidités de Rigadin
Les timidités de Rigadin
8mn - Comedy
Shy Rigadin decides to visit some friends of the family, but they are called away and when out the servants play high society, dressing up and partying. Which is when Rigadin enters…
poster La sposa del Nilo
La sposa del Nilo
17mn -
La Sposa del Nilo (1911) was a proto-epic, where you could sense the Italian filmmakers (Enrico Guazzoni in this case) gearing up to the gigantic imaginings of Cabiria and Quo Vadis just a few years on. T…
poster Mothers of France
Mothers of France
74mn - Drama, War
A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and to helping those wounded in the war.